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She is the author of many books on real estate and personal finance, including her bestselling book, 100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask (3rd Ed.). She has nearly one million copies of her books in print. She has also written more than 20 ebooks, which are available for purchase at the ThinkGlink.com Store.

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She contributes occasional commentaries to NPR’s Sound Money and Marketplace Money, and is a frequent guest on radio and television programs, including Oprah, the Today Show, CBS This Morning, Fox News, CNN, CNBC and WTTW/Chicago. She spent 8 years as a personal finance and real estate reporter for WGN-TV, Chicago, and has hosted her own nationally syndicated two-hour radio program and syndicated minute, both reaching more than 65 stations nationwide.

Award-Winning Journalist

Ilyce has won numerous awards throughout her career, including Best Consumer Reporter,Best Television Report, and Best Blog from the National Association of Real Estate Editors. She also won the first Money $mart award from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and received the Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism from the Chicago Headline Club. In 2006, she was nominated for an Emmy® Award.

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An in-demand speaker, Ilyce gives numerous speeches a year to a wide variety of audiences including Marriott Hotels, Discover Card, the Delaware State Treasurer’s Office, Allstate Foundation, Youth Leaders International, March of Dimes, City of Chicago Department on Aging and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

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Ilyce Glink also owns and operates Think Glink Publishing LLC, a privately-held company that provides media consulting services, as well as strategic editorial content and video for companies and non-profit organizations. This original content helps companies achieve specific marketing and sales goals, such as providing top-quality educational content for customers, mining a current list of customers for new business, and increasing web traffic and sales volume.

The content created by Think Glink Publishing takes on many forms, including private label books, targeted email campaigns, electronic newsletters, ebooks and ereports, Internet video and other kinds of strategic content for a variety of websites.

Think Glink Publishing’s clients include large companies in the real estate, mortgage, credit and payroll industries, as well as smaller, privately-held Internet companies and nonprofits. She is also chief content strategist for the real estate investing marketplace and social network site, RealtyJoin.com.

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Samuel Tamkin

SAMUEL TAMKIN is a Chicago-based real estate attorney with more than 20 years of experience working with residential and commercial clients. Sam graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Economics, History and International Relations. Following the University of Pennsylvania, Sam received his law degree from the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign-Urbana.

In addition to his work with buyers and sellers of residential real estate transactions, he has helped homeowners with loan modifications, residential leases, easements and licenses.

His work with commercial real estate clients has included 1031 Tax Deferred Exchanges, construction loans, permanent loans, letters of credit, ground leases and retail, office, industrial and restaurant leases. He has represented both landlords and tenants in their lease transactions. Sam has also represented industrial and commercial purchasers in their acquisition of land for their properties and has represented sellers in their sale of industrial, office, retail and apartment buildings.

Currently, Sam’s articles are syndicated in newspapers across the United States, including the Washington Post, Orlando Sentinel, among many others.

As you’ve probably already suspected, visitors to the Web site send hundreds of questions each week. We do open and read every question that we get. And while we try to answer as many questions as we can, the truth is that we can’t answer all of them.

In many instances, we get same or similar questions. On other instances, the answers to some of the questions are readily available on our site.

The good news is that ThinkGlink.com contains over 5,000 pages of content, and I’m pretty sure that someone has asked a question similar to yours that I’ve answered on the site.

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Real Estate Attorney

A Real Estate Attorney is an attorney who specializes in the purchase and sale of real estate.

Real Estate

Real Estate is land and anything permanently attached to it, such as buildings and improvements.

Mortgage

A Mortgage is a document granting a lien on a home in exchange for financing granted by a lender. The mortgage is the means by which the lender secures the loan and has the ability to foreclose on the home.

Location

Location is where a property is geographically situated. "Location, location, location" is a broker's maxim that states that where the property is located is its most important feature, because you can change everything about a house, except its location.

Loan

A Loan is an amount of money that is lent to a borrower, who agrees to repay it plus interest.

Equity

Your share of ownership in a company. Stockholders are often referred to as equity investors, because they invest in the equity of a company.